Tomorrow the Minutemen begin doing the job of George W. Bush along the Arizona border with Mexico. President Bush recently sided with Vicente Fox, President of Mexico in calling these brave Americans vigilantes. What a sad comment from the President of the United States who fails to meet his most basic responsibility to defend his country. Year after year millions of illegal aliens come to this country draining our resources, taking our jobs and allowing terrorists to enter our country...
Today the presidential commission studying the WMD and our intelligence operation issued a scathing report. The report concludes that the intelligence agencies were "dead wrong" in almost all of their judgments. They overstated the case that Iraq was rebuilding their WMD programs. It is therefore clear that we went to war predicated on totally erroneous information. It is time for President Bush to admit that the United States made an error when it preemptively attacking Iraq when it di...
The action of Congress and President Bush to enact the Terri Schiavo legislation over Palm Sunday provides proof that Congress and the president can act quickly if they choose. Is now time for the American people to insist that our Congress and our president apply this lesson learned over Palm Sunday to resolve some very urgent matters that affect tens of millions of Americans First Congress need to change a simple number in the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount that trigge...
A Gallup poll shows only 45% support of Bush. A second poll by CBS News found support for Bush dropped to 43%. These two polls confirm many other polls on specific subjects which clearly indicate that many of the president's policies are not what the American people want. When is Bush going to change his policies to more closely meet the wishes of the people in this country? Where is the democracy Mr. Bush says is so important?
Yesterday the trustees for Social Security and Medicare issued an update as to the health of these two programs. The report clearly shows that the American public have been given a "snow job" by both John Snow, Secretary of Treasury and George W. Bush. The report shows that the real crisis is not Social Security but Medicare. According to the report, by 2020 the Medicare Trust Fund will be depleted and Medicare will be able to pay only 79% of claims. The Social Security Trust Fund ...
President Bush continues his romp across the country telling seniors not to worry about their benefits under Social Security. What he doesn’t understand is that seniors are concerned not simply for their own benefits but for the benefits of their children and grandchildren. They do not want the uncertainty of the stock market for Social Security. Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of Americans do not support private accounts. Is not necessary to establish private accounts ...
Only in government can someone who failed to do their job receive a promotion. What in the world is President Bush thinking about by nominating Wolfowitz to the World Bank? First ,this man is more responsible for the Iraq war policy than any other member of the Pentagon staff. Almost everything we were told about the war has proven to be wrong. It was Wolfowitz that told us our troops would be received as heroes. The cost would be between $60 and $80 billion and their oil revenue w...
The Defense Department Inspector General has finally asked the Justice Department to join the investigation of Hilliburton about the massive overcharges the Pentagon discovered. This began in December 2003 with the initial $1.2 billion overcharge for fuel sales in Iraq. In January there were the disclosures of $6.3 million taken by two other employees. In February another 16 a million-dollar overcharge for for meals was disclosed. In February 16th another hundred and $140 million in f...
Take a few moments to answer the following questions. Since George W. Bush took office: Are you and your family better off financially? Have the tax cuts helped you? Do you feel more secure? Has the way other nations view America improved? Have we begun rebuilding our infrastructure? Can you afford healthcare and prescription drugs? Are we doing enough for Homeland defense? Have we made Social Security financially secure? Have we made Medicare financi...
The Commerce Department reported that the trade deficit in January was the second highest ever in the history of the U S. We have run record high trade deficits in each of the last three years. Last year it hit $617.1 Billion which is an increase of 24% in just one year. Last monthy a surge is textile shipments from China and high oil prices pushed the monthly deficit to $58.3 Billion. Bush is not using the controls within the trade agreements to help stem the trade deficit. China, whi...
Nightly, Lou Dobbs documents the failure of President Bush to fulfill his most basic responsibility which is to safeguard the United States. 3 ½ years after 9/11, President Bush claims we are short 10,000 border guards and thousands more INS agents to deal with the illegal aliens within our country. At the very same time he is acknowledging the lack of resources to enforce our immigration laws to protect this country, his new budget fails to ask for the money necessary to provide the ne...
I sent my Blog,"Unemployment Rate does not give a clear job picture" to the Dept of Labor. Over the past week, I have exchanged three sets of E-mails with staffers at the Division of Labor Force Statistics about the unemployment rate. They agreed with the points in my Blog and told me, "the official Unemployment rate doesn't provide a full picture of labor market difficulties". The offiicial unemployment rate that is sighted, which went from 5.2% to 5.4% in February does not count many peo...
Social Security Math Below are the results of President Bush’s Social Security plan as outlined one web site www.gop.com For a worker age of 53, their account value at age 68 would be $48,922 with a 8% compounded yield per year. Adjusted for inflation at 3% that is the equivalent of $30,980 today. For a worker age 43 their account value at age 68 would be $150,789 with a 8% compounded yield. Adjusted for inflation at 3% that is the equivalent of $70,442 today. For a worker ag...
Let’s take a look at the Bush proposal for Social Security private accounts. Below is a table which shows the results of allowing workers to set aside $1000 in year one and increase that investment by $100 per year from their Social Security taxes. The column on the right shows the cumulative balance using an 8% compounded rate of return. As you can see, the amount of money that a worker would have at retirement under the Bush plan is NOT significant unless you participate for 20- 25 years...
The Associated Press today reported that the Bush administration is sending a phalanx of people from the White House and the Treasury Dept. to sell his Social Security changes to the American public. There is a very basic problem with what President Bush is doing - what is the president asking us to consider? We are constantly told when questions are asked about his plan, “that has not been decided.” It’s like Mr. Bush is trying to sell us a new car that has 20 inch wheels. What doe...